The Rose Garden was quiet, even if it was busy, Su Xin and Su Jin's movements were very light.

In contrast, Heyan Hall, which is located on the central axis of Wu'anhou Mansion, is laughing and lively at this time.

Heyan Hall is the residence of the old lady of the Hou Mansion of Wu'an.

The old lady was in her fifties, her hair was gray, but her spirit was strong. She is white-skinned, a little rich, wearing an emerald on her head, and a jasper bead around her neck.

The old lady smiled lovingly and kindly, and her eyebrows and eyes were bent into a slit.

It's really not much different from an old lady who is old in an ordinary family.

Look at the child who made everyone laugh, his name is Shen Rongan, and he is the eldest son of the third lady Zhou Baolu.

Mrs. Wu'anhou looked down on her youngest son's daughter-in-law who insisted on marrying into the door, but now that her grandchildren are so old, and the child is still so smart and likable, even if she wants to make a face for the child, she has to lift Zhou Baolu by two points.

The old lady took a red pomegranate and handed it to Zhou Baolu, "Brother Rong, you have taught it with your heart, the child is very good, and he will have a great future when he grows up." This pomegranate has a big seed and is sweet, you can eat a few more if you like, and then add a younger brother and sister to Brother Rong, and our family will be more lively. ”

Zhou Baolu took the ruddy and plump pomegranate with both hands, and was flattered for a while, smiling like a flower, "Where is my teaching good, it is clear that our children are born with wisdom, and the third master has time to teach a few words, Brother Rong is so smart." ”

"You're all credited."

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law exchanged a few polite words, and the second lady sitting next to them suddenly became sour. She is a laughing and noisy person, even if she is just a concubine and daughter-in-law, but her mother's family is powerful, and she can speak in her mother-in-law's house.

"My mother only gave my younger siblings pomegranates and didn't give them to me, so I don't follow them. If our lord says that my stomach has not moved, I will only let him come to my mother to reason, who asked you not to give me pomegranates to eat. ”

The old lady was so amused that she couldn't laugh angrily, and pointed to the second family's family and shook her head, "You are just a splash, if I have any good things here, then I have missed you?" Okay, good, and for you. Go back and divide the pomegranate between you and you, and one of you will give me a big fat grandson next year. ”

The second daughter-in-law said, "Don't you dare to be greedy for your mother's things, this is sent by the uncle to honor you." This year, the rain is heavy, the pomegranates have collapsed, and there are not many pomegranates in such good condition. It's still the uncle who has to be valued by His Majesty, so he has divided so much. Uncle is filial, and the whole thing is sent to your house. My brother and sister and I beat the autumn wind to take advantage of you, I really dare to divide the pomegranates and take them back to our house, and your two sons will give us a beating. ”

The old lady smiled and couldn't see her eyes, "You will talk nonsense." If you dare to move a finger, you will tell me when you turn around, I will let his eldest brother beat him. ”

The second lady casually entangled with the old lady for a few more words, and Zhou Baolu couldn't answer, so she could only sit and get angry. Before she could bring anything out of her face, she held back the evil fire in her stomach and almost tore the handkerchief in her hand. I couldn't help but snort silently in my heart: What's the use of being able to speak again? The second child is a concubine, and he didn't crawl out of the old lady's stomach. Isn't it the meat that fell from his own body, even if he is close, he can still go over his own life?

Thinking like this, Zhou Baolu's breath in her heart was finally not so blocked.

The second lady looked at the handkerchief in Zhou Baolu's hand, which was twisted like a hemp rope, and she looked down on this younger brother and sister even more.

Can't stand it?

That's where it goes!

This is the old lady's two sons-in-law, and the uncle has never married since his divorce, and there is no man and half woman under his knees. The old lady is old, and she is a rare grandson, so she loves Rong'an a little more. For the sake of Rong'an, he had to look up at the child's biological mother. Zhou Baolu is completely dependent on her mother's son. Otherwise, if she is so sharp, careful to think about a basket, and the daughter-in-law who claims to be shrewd but is actually stupid, the old lady is too lazy to take a second look.

The old lady just didn't see the two daughters-in-law's eyebrows and eyes, sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, drinking tea, and watching Brother Rong eat dim sum and fruit with a smile.

The child is really smart and clever, and he is really well taught, but this is the younger son's sister-in-law. And the eldest son Tingjun has never had the intention of getting married since he left, and he is still alone. Could it be that her old man really can't hold the son of her eldest son in this life?

The old lady of Wu'anhou Mansion was born in a powerful family, grew up with gold and jade, and married a nobleman, and her husband was a noble Wu'anhou. After marriage, the husband and wife were harmonious, but within a year, she gave birth to her eldest son, Shen Tingjun, and successfully gained a firm foothold in the Hou Mansion. Later, she gave birth to a son and a daughter, and opened the branches and leaves for the Wu'an Hou Mansion.

The old lady of Wu'anhou has had a smooth sail in her life, if her husband died unexpectedly, it is the first threshold in her life, but at that time, the eldest son was already an adult, and his martial arts were not a problem, and he had to be valued by His Majesty and the prince, and successfully provoked the heavy responsibility of Wu'anhou.

Everything in the house is the same, the children are on their knees, except for the lack of a pillow person who talks at night, the life of the old lady of Wu'an Hou is not much different from usual.

What really hit the old lady of Wu'an Hou was that the eldest son and the eldest daughter-in-law decided to reconcile and divorce, and they have not married yet.

The eldest son, Shen Tingjun, is the son that Mrs. Wu'an Hou relies on the most, and also makes her the most proud and distressed.

At the age of five, he was selected as the prince's companion and has been in the palace ever since. He won the eighteenth imperial examination and was appointed as the champion. After his father's funeral, he inherited the title of Marquis of Wu'an, and was reused by the emperor and was promoted to the sixth rotation. Now that he is less than a year old, he is the Sanpin Dali Temple, which is His Majesty's henchman and the prince's right-hand man.

Such a promising son, noble and dignified, with great power, who goes out disrespectfully calls "Shen Hou", or "adult".

But the son is alone, and every time he returns to the yard late at night, he doesn't even have a caring person to talk to, how can this not make her feel sorry for her as a mother?

The old lady was out of her mind for a while, and when she came back to her senses, she heard the second daughter-in-law asking the third daughter-in-law, "I heard that my younger sister's maiden cousin entered the house in the morning?" Why didn't you come over to say hello to your mother? In the end, it is the cousin of the younger brother and sister, and it is also a family, and it should still be seen. ”

The old lady suddenly remembered that there really was such a thing.

She opened her mouth, "Is that your poor widowed cousin?" ”

Zhou Baolu was asked this question by the old lady, and her heart tightened. Although the current atmosphere is much more open, there are still many people who think that widowed women are unlucky, unless they are close relatives, and others do not want to be close to them, let alone accept them.

When a widowed woman returns to her parents' home, there are still clansmen who want to push back. But if Sang Xuanyue returns to Zhou's house, Zhou Baolu can really speak. But now this is not the Zhou family, but her husband's Wu'an Hou Mansion.

Bring the widowed cousin to her husband's house, and the idlers really can't do such things.

But Zhou Baolu did it, and she did it, naturally not because she was reckless and not afraid of offending the old lady. Instead, she sold miserably in front of the old lady in advance, which touched the old man's pity. The old lady was merciful and took pity on what happened to Sang Twisting Yue, so she agreed to take Sang Twisting Moon to the house for a temporary stay.

Zhou Baolu relaxed, and the expression on her face was replaced by compassion, "My cousin is a pitiful, and she was also in pain when her husband died unexpectedly, but her mother-in-law did not comfort her for a word, but blamed her cousin for the cause of her son's death." I had quietly sent someone to see the situation before, and it was my cousin who was tortured. If it weren't for the fact that he still has a younger brother to take care of, he gritted his teeth and held on, otherwise he would have followed him a long time ago. I haven't seen anyone yet, and I don't know. ”

He added, "I was busy coming over to greet my mother in the morning, so I asked Brocade to greet my cousin on my behalf, and now Brocade should be back." ”

The people waiting outside heard the sound of talking inside, and someone immediately responded, "The brocade girl next to the third lady is here, old lady, do you want the brocade to come in and reply?" ”

The old lady nodded, "Come in." ”

Brocade hurried in and saluted several of the masters in the house.

At this time, where is she still high and high before, but she is respectful and respectful, and she does not dare to make a wrong step and take a wrong step.

Under Zhou Baolu's gesture, the brocade told everything he had seen and heard before.

Sang Xuanyue did not go to Wang's house to pick it up in person, but the old man next to Zhou Baolu personally ran this trip. But when the henchman returned, he informed the brocade of all the circumstances, so that the ladies would not ask, so that the brocade would not be blackened, and then they would be blamed.

Brocade first said, "The lady of the Wang family is so angry, the prince of the Wang family has been gone for more than a year, and she also forced the cousin to wear linen clothes, hairpins and white flowers, and knelt in the ancestral hall every day to copy Buddhist scriptures, and kept filial piety to the prince of the Wang family." ”

This sentence alone made the old lady frown, "The Wang family is not a scholar? Doesn't the Wang family understand the law? ”

At the beginning of the new dynasty, Taizu and Empress Sheng Zhaoming made changes to many legislative provisions. One of them is: "The wife serves the husband for three years, and the husband serves the wife for one year", which was changed to "The wife serves the husband for one year, and the husband serves the wife for one year".

This incident shook the government and the opposition at that time, and many literati and doctors said that this move shook the saint's religion, and asked the saint to change back to the original state with his death.

It's a pity that at that time, it was the beginning of the new dynasty, Taizu and Empress Sheng Zhaoming were in power, and most of the ministers in the court were their supporters.

The most crucial thing is that in the last years of the previous dynasty, after the tyrants indiscriminately killed innocents, the eunuchs' dictatorship disregarded people's lives, and the government's inaction, natural and man-made disasters, and the smoke of war, the country's population fell from 19 million to 6.9 million in just a dozen years.

Efforts to increase the population were the most urgent things to do at the beginning of the founding of the country. It is precisely under this premise that reducing the time for filial piety and urging widows to remarry has become a political task.

It is said that in the first 20 years of the founding of the country, if a widow could not remarry within two years of losing her husband, the government would force her to be assigned a family. Until now, although widows are no longer forcibly allocated, widows' remarriage is a political consideration, and it is calculated as a scope for the promotion of officials.

The Wang family is also a scholar, and even more, Wang Gongzi's father is still a small official. Now that the daughter-in-law has completed her filial piety, how can she still force people to continue to stay in her mother-in-law's house? If the daughter-in-law is willing, forget it, but whoever is tortured like this, wants to get out of the tiger and wolf's den as soon as possible.

- In the final analysis, it was the girl who did not have the support of her mother's family that the Wang family dared to do this.

Brocade saw the old lady sigh, although she didn't know where the old lady thought, but her intuition was not good. The corner of his eye glanced at the lady sitting next to him, and the brocade was signaled, and continued, "Lord Wang is the chief secretary of Wei County, and he has been on duty in the county government for decades. The Wang family is a decent family in the local area. ”

It's not just decent, it's arrogant!

After all, the county order of flowing water is the main book of iron. Although Wang Zhushu is not a native of Wei County, he has been operating in Wei County for decades and has become a local snake. Zhou Baolu sent Uncle Qi and Aunt Qi before were not taken seriously by the Wang family at all, and they were not received when they repeatedly handed over the prayer post to the door. Seeing that the Wang family was going to die to the end, and forced to prevent the cousin from returning, Uncle Qi had to raise the name of the third master of the Wu'an Hou Mansion.

The third master of Wu'anhou's Mansion is not a great figure, but his eldest brother Wu'anhou, who is a compatriot of his mother, is a powerful and majestic minister of the Son of Heaven.

Wu Anhou holds Dali Temple. Dali Temple, the Criminal Department, and the Inspectorate are combined into three law divisions. The Criminal Department accepts criminal cases all over the world, pickets them in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and refutes them in Dali Temple.

Wu Anhou is only thirty years old, and he is already in power, in addition to his Jane in the emperor's heart, but also because of his fine and legal rules, fairness, rigor and selflessness. Any violation of the law and crime will not be taken lightly by him, and even if the prince and grandson break the law, his sentence will not be reduced. It can be said that he is really a tough bone in the judiciary, which makes all officials respect and fear him, and they can't back down.

The king is also in awe of Wu Anhou, if he is clean, it will be forgotten, but he is not clean......

Xu didn't want to make a big deal out of it, and then alarmed the people who didn't want to be alarmed. The king master's book insisted on pressing the lady of the master's book, and agreed to release Sang Xuanyue.